I get why people expect this of him, but do you think he'll have an entire team meeting on the sideline? A simple message through the headset to the position coaches to carry on the message would suffice.
Originally Posted by: musccy
If it's a team problem then you need to address the team... though unless it's a timeout or something you really can't address the whole team, do it in halfs. Offense half and defense half. But you're normally right, just yell at the position coaches to yell at the players, but in the Seattle game maybe more was needed.
I really don't think this move was just due to the Seattle game even if it may have proved to be the catalyst. I also speculate that not knowing about CM3 at the end was more of the final straw than anything else that transpired during the game.
Originally Posted by: musccy
I agree with the thought, he didn't make this decision based on one game. Though I do wonder if there might be more off the field stuff than we know (like maybe health problems are getting to MM, but I'm hoping that's not the case).
One thought I have had, is that MM wants to step away from the offense and get more involved with the defense and ST some how (though I'm not sure how he'd do that). But with all the special teams errors, he's now going to be very involved in all 3 instead of just mainly one. I think this is what the move really is about. With Tom Clements, Dom Capers, and ST coach (let's say Ron Zook for now) being directly in charge of their group and all under him equally, where as before he let the defense and ST do their own thing more.
Though I still don't get the title switching idea... I mean they really didn't have to switch Clements title, but I guess this gets Edgar Bennett away from the WRs? MM has said Bennett has been heavily involved in their run game planning even though he moved to WR coach.
Mike McCarthy is a good Head Coach. McCarthy is also a good offensive play caller. However, for the same reasons Bob Harlan said he would never have a General Manager and Head Coach be the same person, I think having your HC and Offense or Defense play caller being the HC is equally damaging.
Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool
Didn't Harlan leave Sherman as both HC and GM?
I think it can work if you got good people at the other coordinator spots. I know a lot of people dislike him, but I think overall Capers has been pretty good play caller for the most part (still hate the 3 man rushes against good QBs... they sometimes work against bad QBs), but players haven't developed on defense nearly as well. Like Perry still flashes but still disappears as well, a number of the DL haven't turned out too good.
ST is another story, I have no idea what's going on there. But it seems like the Packers can't consistently do well there for some reason.